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THROW PHYSIC TO THE DOGS 



GEORGE AND ALICE HAYDEN 



THROW PHYSIC TO 
THE DOGS 

BY 

GEORGE AND ALICE HAYDEN 



"There is wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. 
A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what 
he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health/ ' 

Of Regimen of Health, Francis Bacon 




NEW XBJr YORK 
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY 



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Copyright, 1918, 
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CONTENTS 

PAGE 

INTRODUCTORY 13 

CHAPTER 

I THE GREAT MODERN PLAGUE .... 15 

II ILL HEALTH AND THE COLON .... 19 

III SYMPTOMS AND CONSEQUENCES ... 25 

IV WHAT CAN BE DONE? 29 

V THE NATURAL LAXATIVE ..... 30 

VI THE METHOD ........ 38 

VII FIVE RULES AND GOOD HEALTH ... 39 

VIII POSITION, PATIENCE, AND THE MENTAL 

ATTITUDE 48 

IX FOOD AND NUTRITION 54 

THE LAST WORD 57 

BREAKFAST MENUS 59 

DINNER MENUS 65 

A WORD ABOUT LUNCHEONS 74 

LIST OF CELLULOSE VALUES 77 



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Do You Know — 

— That only one movement a day means 
constipation? 

— That poisons are absorbed into the 
blood when fecal matter is allowed to remain 
in the lower bowel any length of time? 

— That you must have an evacuation 
three times a day to be healthy? 

— That we have eliminated from our diet 
almost all the laxative and bowel-stimulat- 
ing properties of food? 

— That we can have normal, natural 
movements by an intelligent selection of 
food? 

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— That physic is an irritant and causes 
disease? 

— That the colon, or lower bowel, is a 
breeding place for disease? 

— That most of the ills of mankind come 
from it? 

— That it is, in practically all people, a 
repulsive, unclean thing? 

— That it was meant to be as clean and 
fresh as any other part of the body? 

— That it poisons the whole being, body 
and mind, when neglected? 

— That it can be cleaned and kept clean? 

— That with as much care as you give to 
cleanliness of your skin you can keep all 
your internal organs clean? 

— That food is the natural laxative? 

— That cellulose is in all fruits, grains 
and vegetables in different proportions? 

— That the diet of almost every person 



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in civilised communities is deficient in this 
important and necessary element? 

— That the lack of it causes the most 
prevalent of all diseases — constipation? 

— That you can cure yourself of this if 
you select, by preference, food that contains 
a high percentage of cellulose? 

— That constipation in almost all cases 
may be considered less a disease than a per- 
nicious habit and that with a little care and 
patience any one can be cured? 



INTRODUCTORY 

In one of his plays Shakespere gave us 
this gem of wisdom: "Throw physic to the 
dogs," but for three hundred years this ex- 
cellent advice has been ignored. Mankind 
is as devoted to physic as ever; most of us 
depending on pills, purges and enemas to 
get through the day. Shakespere's words 
fell on deaf ears because he did not tell us 
what to do after the physic was thrown to 
the dogs. 

The purpose of this little book is to show 
how, by an easy and natural method of eat- 
ing* by an intelligent selection of food, the 
worst cases of constipation can be cured and 
physic, if not literally thrown to the dogs, 
may at least be eliminated from the family 
medicine chest. 



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CHAPTER I 

The Great Modern Plague 

IN the course of a few years the use of 
physic has grown to such large propor- 
tions that the average housewife considers 
cathartics as important an item among her 
stores as groceries. The widespread increase 
of constipation due to the modern sedentary 
mode of living coupled with the limited diet 
of to-day is the cause of the almost universal 
abuse of medical or mechanical purges. Con- 
stipation, which is responsible for 75 per 
cent, or more of all the ills of man, is the 
modern plague, not less terrible in its effect 
upon the general health of a community 
than the epidemics that swept the cities of 
the Middle Ages in the days before sanita- 

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tion. It is impossible to ignore the serious- 
ness of this prevalent malady. 

Without any desire to emulate the grim 
terrorists who write the advertisements for 
patent medicines and enema bags, it would 
be quite possible to enumerate as derived 
from constipation almost all known diseases 
from appendicitis to zymosis. It is gen- 
erally understood that sick-headache, bil- 
iousness, "bad stomach/' indigestion, skin 
diseases, colds and catarrh are caused by 
improper elimination: but it is not suffi- 
ciently well known that many of the most 
dreaded ills of mankind originate in the low- 
er bowel. In fact the almost complete ig- 
norance of the functions of the bowels and 
their potency for evil is the cause of their 
neglect and their prevalent morbid condi- 
tion. Most people do not know what consti- 
pation is: they consider it to be merely the 
inability to have a movement of the bowels 



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without artificial assistance. The truth is 
that many, without suspecting it, are vic- 
tims of unconscious constipation. 

People who have one complete bowel 
movement a day are very rare; the daily 
stool of the average person who is so fortu- 
nate as to have one daily is inadequate; 
some of the excrement is not discharged 
and this amount, small or large, as it may 
be, being retained each day soon accumu- 
lates and forms an impact mass in the bow- 
els until a "sick headache" or "bilious at- 
tack" gives warning and by the aid of a 
violent purge the bowels are forcibly emp- 
tied. This gives a short period of relief, 
but the accumulation beginning at once, the 
same condition returns almost before the 
sufferer has recovered from the weakening 
effects of the purge. Thus continues the 
round of alternating self-poisoning and 
purge exhaustion — until one of the many 



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serious chronic diseases caused by constipa- 
tion begins to develop. 

While the few persons who have a com- 
plete movement each day may consider 
themselves very fortunate, it is more than 
likely that they are also victims of con- 
stipation insomuch as the action of the bow- 
els of almost every human being in civil- 
ised communities is far too slow. It is cer- 
tain that in this case the excrement is re- 
tained much too long for the welfare of the 
body; the amount that is evacuated each day 
is sure to be the amount that should have 
been passed at least 24 hours before. This 
condition, while the least dangerous of all 
forms of constipation, yet allows accumula- 
tions in the "pockets" or sagging parts of 
the colon which will produce, among almost 
any of the ills derived from the retention 
of fecal matter, one most dreaded disease, 
appendicitis.. 



CHAPTER II 

III Health and the Colon 

THE Colon is the seat of the disorder. 
This large intestine, shaped like an 
inverted U, is the great sewer of the human 
body. Here all the refuse of the body col- 
lects for the final evacuation. 

This refuse is commonly and erroneous- 
ly supposed to consist of the remains of 
food eaten, but there is actually very little 
remains of food in human excrement; it 
consists rather of bile, bacteria, mucus, 
waste products, poisons from protein and 
bacterial putrefaction, together with rough 
indigestible particles of food, and a very lit- 
tle undigested food. Whatever residue of 
undigested animal matter reaches the colon, 

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and there is always certain to be an appreci- 
able amount, putrefies quickly and becomes 
just so much deadly poison. This putre- 
faction also forms alkaline substances which 
paralyse the bowels to a very marked extent. 

The absolute necessity of getting rid of 
this offensive waste matter at once is ap- 
parent. The longer the excrement is re- 
tained in the intestine the more dangerous 
it becomes; the mucous lining of the colon 
gradually absorbs the moisture, impreg- 
nated with poison and filth of the most nox- 
ious kind, and this enters the system, caus- 
ing havoc throughout the body, in the blood, 
and in every delicate nerve and tissue, do- 
ing untold damage. 

All the evil effects of constipation are 
caused by the inadequate elimination of this 
fecal matter. The amount retained accu- 
mulates until the bowels are clogged and a 
chronic state of biliousness, auto-intoxica- 



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tion or anemia results; the lower pouch of 
the colon becomes filled with hardened fecal 
matter and appendicitis ensues; the mois- 
ture absorbed carries with it countless germs 
as the colon is a fertile breeding place for 
bacteria and the seed of many of the most 
dreaded diseases are sown in the blood, ty- 
phoid and malaria, for example; even con- 
sumption may have its origin in the colon. 

Even when daily evacuation takes place it 
is most likely that it consists of matter that 
should have been voided twenty-four or 
more hours before. All dark, evil-smelling 
stools are delayed stools; the normal, 
healthy excrement is pale yellow and prac- 
tically odourless. Practically all people who 
live in a more primitive condition than we 
do, the peasants of Europe and most of the 
Oriental nations, consider it essential to per- 
fect health that the colon should be com- 
pletely emptied of its contents not only 



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every day but three times a day, after each 
meal. They consider one movement a day 
to mean constipation and feel the loss of 
energy and clearness of mind when three 
movements a day do not take place. 

This may seem extreme but it has been 
shown how imperative it is that the colon 
should be emptied as soon as the fecal mat- 
ter descends into it, and this takes place 
after each meal, at which time the bowels 
are the most active. Man is the only animal 
that abuses its body by using the colon as 
a repository of excrement when Nature has 
designed it merely as a passage to the point 
of evacuation. 

Among all animals and among men that 
live in a natural state the colon is emptied 
immediately the fecal matter passes into it; 
in our civilised communities where we have 
had to consider the restrictions of time and 
place the excrement is retained until some 



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convenient time. This has been the cause of 
constipation. 

Here is one of the most vital organs of 
the human body which through misuse has 
become a repulsive, unclean thing, a menace 
to the whole being, an organ which was 
meant to be as fresh and clean as any other 
part of the body. 

To have good health, to achieve the great- 
est efficiency, and to live long it is absolutely 
necessary that the body should be kept clean 
within as well as without. This may be ac- 
complished if as much care is given to the 
one part of the body as to the other. 

A word should be added here to point out 
the disastrous effects of physic and purges. 
The far-reaching evil that results from all 
medicinal means of forcing the evacuation 
of the bowels is recognised by the most ad- 



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vanced physicians and as a result less and 
less physic is given year by year. The pop- 
ular belief that physic acts upon the bowels 
is quite wrong. The truth is that the organs 
themselves act upon the physic, all the or- 
gans from the stomach to the colon, and this 
means an added and exhausting strain upon 
them. A violent irritation is caused, a mor- 
bid flow of watery secretions excited. The 
weakening effect upon the system is well 
known to all users of cathartics but its ex- 
tent is not realised ; the irritation causes dis- 
ease, the strain on the kidneys and the other 
organs is very grave, and the whole consti- 
tution is undermined. Above all, there are 
no pills, purges or powders that cure; they 
only aggravate. Saline purges are maybe 
the worst. 



CHAPTER III 

Symptoms and Consequences 

PHYSICIANS, like Metchnikoff and 
Sir Arbuthnot Lane, who have made 
extensive study of the relation between the 
colon and health, have all agreed that auto- 
intoxication is not sufficiently recognised by 
the general practitioner as the basis of most 
of the illness of mankind. Whereas the usual 
treatment given by the average doctor 
is purely symptomatic; that is, the relief of 
the patient is sought through the treatment 
of whatever symptoms that appear, as ton- 
ics for debility, bromides for nervousness, 
calomel for headaches and biliousness and so 
on down the list; in almost every case the 
cause of all the symptoms, the root of all 

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the evil, is totally ignored and if any cure 
is effected it is because nature will heal if 
given half a chance in spite of all the drugs 
and medicaments. 

Many of the most alarming symptoms 
that cause apprehension to every man and 
woman at some time or other are almost 
sure to be derived from constipation, con- 
scious or unconscious, or from auto-intoxi- 
cation: Vertigo, flashes before the eyes, 
headache, neuralgia, neuritis, insomnia, bad 
dreams, loss of memory, inability to con- 
centrate the mind, disinclination for busi- 
ness or social enjoyments, petulant dispo- 
sition, anxiety, hysteria, hypochondria, de- 
spondency and melancholia, temporary 
mania, infantile convulsions and other nerv- 
ous phenomena. 

The uncomfortable and annoying afflic- 
tions of so many people who are otherwise 
in good health are certain to arise from this 



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same cause : Furred tongue, bad taste in the 
mouth, foul breath, nausea, thirst, indiffer- 
ent appetite, gaseous eructations, flatulence, 
abdominal tenderness, colicky pains, cold 
extremities, sallow complexion, fecal fever, 
small, weak pulse, anemia, palpitation, al- 
buminuria, lithemia, dark-coloured urine, 
skin affections, fetid perspiration. 

The lack of care of the colon will inevit- 
ably result in: Diarrhea, hemorrhoids, in- 
testinal catarrh, discharges of mucus, alone 
or admixed with pus or blood, ulceration, 
interoptosis, dilation of the bowel, localised 
peritonitis, adhesions, tumefactions, or lo- 
calised pain and disturbances and diseases 
of the bladder, urethra, prostate, seminal 
vesicles, uterus, tubes or ovaries. 

Diseases that at first glance seem to have 
no relation to the colon are almost sure to 
be the outcome of constipation: Febrile at- 
tacks resembling malaria, gall stones, 



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Bright's disease, sclerosis or hardening of 
the liver, chronic rheumatism, and rheu- 
matic gout and dropsy. Many women sup- 
posed to be suffering from disorders pecu- 
liar to their sex are really suffering only 
from auto-intoxication. 

Constipation also lays the foundation for 
tuberculosis, cancer of the stomach, ulcer of 
the stomach and other gastric disorders, 
hardening of the arteries, irritation of the 
brain and nerve centres, paralysis, diabetes, 
diseases of the spleen, liver and thyroid 
gland, and even insanity. 



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CHAPTER IV 

What Can Be Done? 

13EF0RE the far-reaching consequences 
-*-* of this malady the mind may stand dis- 
mayed. The relief of the commonest and 
one of the most dangerous of ills seems to 
remain undiscovered. While the subject has 
been repeatedly treated exhaustively from 
a medical point, a positive method for its 
cure has never been published. The pres- 
ent method contains all the natural means 
of producing bowel action known to prob- 
ably all dietitians who nevertheless seldom 
if ever prescribe them. 

The harmless, healthful, and economical 
method described here will recommend it- 
self. 

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CHAPTER V 

The Natural Laxative 

[" T is a fact not generally known that Na- 
-* ture has provided us with a harmless, 
powerful laxative that, when used properly, 
will do all that medicine can do. This Nat- 
ural Laxative is plain, every-day food. 

The moment one begins a meal and the 
first morsel of food reaches the stomach a 
rhythmic contraction commences along the 
whole alimentary tract beginning at the 
stomach and finally reaching the anus; a 
series of undulations known as peristaltic 
waves; this is the first stage in the move- 
ment of the bowels. It is an easily demon- 
strable fact that after meals the bowels 
are most active. The stomach begins the 

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The Position of the Colon: Arrows Indicating the 
Direction of the Movement of the Feces. 



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process of digestion, the contents of the 
small intestine move more quickly toward 
the colon and there the accumulated refuse 
is carried along toward the anus for its final 
evacuation. 

Besides this mechanical propulsion caused 
by food there are other active properties in 
the elements of the food itself which soften 
the fecal matter, lubricate the bowels and 
stimulate peristalsis. There are the chem- 
ical properties of food, the organic acids, the 
sugars, the fats, and the mineral salts; also 
there is the bulk forming element, the rough 
indigestible particles of vegetable matter 
that absorb moisture, increase the volume of 
the stool and thereby excite the bowels into 
more thorough action. 

With the knowledge of these facts and 
their importance to the movement of the 
bowels in their elimination of refuse from 



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the body, it is a simple task to cause a more 
thorough and easier evacuation than is 
possible otherwise. By an intelligent selec- 
tion of the articles of food that are most 
active in their stimulation of the intestines 
and a reasonable avoidance of the less active 
or negative foods, this vital function of the 
body, of the utmost importance to health 
and well-being, will cease to depend on the 
blind chance of indiscriminate diet, certain 
of failure, and will become sure and posi- 
tive. 

The laxative value of fruits is well known. 
The acids and sugars they contain are 
among the most powerful stimulants of the 
bowels. The use of olive and other vege- 
table oils, butter, and cream is general in 
the treatment of constipation as the fats 
they contain are valuable in the lubrication 
of the intestines. All sugars, except cane 
sugar, which is too irritating, are stimulat- 



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ing, as are the mineral salts in water and 
in vegetables. Water, plain, distilled or in 
fruit juices and other beverages, is necessary 
in the softening of the excrement. The oils 
in nuts, the acids in vegetables and the 
starch in cereals that is turned to sugar by 
the action of the saliva are invaluable. 

While the merits of these chemical prop- 
erties of food are generally recognised, one 
of the most important factors in the evacu- 
ation of the intestines is almost unknown, 
an element contained in almost all food- 
stuffs whose sole purpose is to stimulate 
and move the bowels. It is the natural aid 
to defecation and a sufficiently effective lax- 
ative to make the artificial assistance of 
drugs and mechanical devices unnecessary. 

The valuable properties of this food ele- 
ment are practically unrecognised. This im- 
portant and much neglected factor is Cellu- 
lose. 



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Cellulose exists in a smaller or greater 
degree in all fruits, grains and vegetables. 
It is a fibrous substance and its value as a 
laxative is due to the fact that the rough 
undigested particles of fibre, giving bulk to 
the contents of the intestines, thereby excite 
the action of the bowels and move the fecal 
matter downward and outward. It is more 
potent than physic and, above all, is the nat- 
ural method of stimulation while every other 
method in common use is weakening, dan- 
gerous, disease creating, only temporary, 
and diminishing in effect. 

While at first glance it would seem as 
though Cellulose would be present in the 
daily diet of every person, in reality the 
every-day diet is decidedly deficient in this 
very necessary element. In fact, it is be- 
cause there is so small an amount of Cellu- 
lose in the ordinary diet of to-day that we 



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have become a race of constipated people; 
over eighty per cent of the people living in 
civilised communities having constipation in 
some form or other. 



CHAPTER VI 

The Method 

f pHE trial of this method should be con- 
-*■ sidered an adventure, not as an un- 
pleasant duty nor as dieting; not martyr- 
dom nor penance; but an experiment that 
will be an investment repaying cent per 
cent. 

We all feel the need of a change at times ; 
to travel, to leave ourselves behind, we hope. 
This will be as a voyage, a complete change 
and we will leave behind much of ourselves 
that is sick and weary. 

Some of the articles of food suggested 
as desirable in the following pages may not 
agree with a few people, but after the treat- 
ment has been followed for a short time 
they will be found quite possible. 



CHAPTER VII 

Five Rules and Good Health 

r I lO have a complete evacuation bulk is 
-* indispensable; therefore a decided 
amount of food containing a fair percentage 
of Cellulose must be eaten daily and all arti- 
cles of food that do not contain Cellulose 
must be used sparingly. 

If you consult the table of the relative 
amount of Cellulose in different foods you 
will note that the usual dinner or lunch prac- 
tically contains no Cellulose. The white 
bread has lost in the milling all the coarse, 
very nutritious and stimulating properties 
of the whole grain, the invaluable bran; that 
is bulk; our meat diet precludes just so 
much bulk as practically all the meat is ab- 
sorbed before it reaches the colon or lower 

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bowel, therefore contributing negatively to 
constipation; while the white potato, al- 
though laxative by reason of its chemical 
properties, contains almost the smallest 
amount of Cellulose of any vegetable. Here 
is the average repast of the person of to- 
day; almost totally deficient in one of the 
most vital factors of good health. 

First: Eat Fruit Between Meals. 

Fruits not only furnish a large amount 
of Cellulose but also the very laxative fruit 
sugars and acids. The high percentage of 
water (about 75 per cent) which most fruits 
contain is the purest distilled water that can 
be found. 

Often eat a luncheon consisting wholly 
of fruit. 

The combination of acid fruit with 
starchy foods, as bread, cereals, potatoes, 
etc., is to be avoided: the almost universal 



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custom of eating such fruit as oranges or 
grape fruit with cereals and cream or bread 
is enough to make the most promising day 
end badly. Bananas, melons and berries, 
except uncooked strawberries and huckle- 
berries, which contain too much acid, are 
the only fruits that can be safely used in 
combination with starchy foods and are ex- 
cellent fruits for breakfast or desserts. 
Cooked fruit may also be used freely and 
is nearly always easier to digest and more 
nutritious, as the baked banana, for in- 
stance. 

In the few cases where acid fruits cannot 
be eaten, mild fruits, as figs, dates, prunes, 
bananas and pears may be used with safety. 

Second : Drink Fruit Juices Daily. 

These extremely nutritious and refresh- 
ing juices are among the most powerful an- 
tiseptics for the stomach and intestines; the 



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putrefactive germs cannot live in fruit acids. 
These acids and the sugars in the juice of 
fruit stimulate the bowels to a marked de- 
gree. 

Cider, when fresh, grape juice, pineapple 
juice and orange juice are especially valu- 
able and may be partaken of freely between 
meals as they are all assimilated without 
taxing the digestive organs in the slightest 
degree and assist the otherwise difficult di- 
gestion of fats. A glass of fruit juice half 
an hour before breakfast is effective. If one 
is in the habit of waking an hour or so pre- 
liminary to a "cat-nap" before rising, a glass 
prepared the night before and placed at the 
bedside may be taken very conveniently. 

Also drink plenty of water. Eight glasses 
of liquid should be taken daily, always be- 
tween meals, never less than an hour before 
nor two hours after and should be sipped 
slowly. 



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Third: Eat Plenty of Vegetables, Pre- 
ferably those Containing the Greatest 
Amount of Cellulose. 

Luncheon and dinner should consist of as 
much vegetable matter as possible. Beans, 
asparagus, onions, peas, carrots, all assist 
in a great degree. Green vegetables espe- 
cially are desirable, lettuce, cucumbers, to- 
matoes, cold slaw, radishes, onions and cel- 
ery. 

The palatable skins of fruits, like the 
skins of apples, most grapes, peaches, pears, 
and, also, the skins of potatoes should be 
masticated thoroughly and eaten. They con- 
tain a high percentage of cellulose. 

Fourth : Eat a Cereal Every Morning 
with Two or Three Tables poonsful of Bran 
and Cream. 

Eat as much cereal as possible as the 
starch in cereals encourages the growth in 



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the intestines of the acid-forming germs 
which prevent the development of the poi- 
son-forming putrefactive germs. Cream 
furnishes an amount of fat that is valuable 
as a lubricant of the intestines. 

A certain amount of bran taken at each 
meal in the form of bran gems, muffins or 
biscuits will greatly help in obstinate cases. 

Substitute rye or whole w r heat bread for 
the almost worthless white wheat bread. 
Graham crackers are infinitely better than 
the white soda cracker. 

Fifth: Avoid All Indigestible Combi- 
nations. 

Avoid all food cooked in or permeated 
with animal fat as fried foods, buttered 
toast, pie crust and pastry and griddle 
cakes. The saliva cannot act upon starch 
when it is mixed with animal fats. 

Avoid tea and coffee; all starchy food 



THROW PHYSIC TO THE DOGS 45 

becomes indigestible in combination with tea 
and coffee. 

Avoid all meats, above all pork, goose, 
veal, liver, gravies and salt meats. Chicken 
is really the only flesh food that should be 
eaten; fish may be used sparingly with the 
exception of salt and shell fish. 

Avoid eating rice, tapioca, white bread, 
cheese, boiled milk, hard-boiled eggs, candy, 
soda fountain drinks, alcohol, chocolate, 
cocoa, pickles, brandied peaches, green 
olives and all animal fats except butter and 
cream. 

In all cases of auto-intoxication or bilious- 
ness all meat should be rigorously excluded 
from the daily bill-of-fare, as well as milk 
and eggs in any form ; milk creating a super- 
lative breeding medium for germ life and 
portions of the white of egg invariably reach- 
ing the colon and putrefying. Chronic, obsti- 
nate cases, especially in auto-intoxication, 



46 THROW PHYSIC TO THE DOGS 

have found more speedy relief in an all-fruit 
diet adhered to for two or three days in the 
beginning. Grapes have been used effec- 
tively in this way as the success of the fa- 
mous grape cure of Europe has proved. 

This does not mean that all the pleasures 
of the table are to be denied — on the con- 
trary, the most delicious, delicate and appe- 
tising dishes are free to be used. Countless 
new discoveries await the explorer of this 
new clean land of plenty; fruits and vege- 
tables which hitherto have meant merely a 
simple aff air of apples and oranges, pota- 
toes and peas, will become a matter of in- 
finite and unimagined variety, a newly 
awakened relish and savour of food will be 
the reward. 

(Note.) When appendicitis has been de- 
veloped through long neglect of the colon, 
the inflamed condition of the appendix and 
adjacent parts of the large intestine render 



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the use of all food containing coarse par- 
ticles such as cellulose too irritating: the 
only recourse is the services of a competent 
dietitian. 



CHAPTER VIII 

Position, Patience and the Mental Attitude 

A FTER the consideration of diet the 
-*** most important thing is the position 
in which the body is held in the act of defeca- 
tion. The modern closet is an excellent aid 
to constipation. The "easy, comfortable 
seat" can be credited with being the cause of 
many cases of constipation. The position 
that the savage takes is the natural one. 
Squatting down with the knees up and the 
thighs pressed close to the body places all 
the organs in the most advantageous posi- 
tion for voiding the bowels. The ordinary 
chamber pot is infinitely better than the 
most "up-to-date" seat. When on occasion 
it is not possible to use one, the feet should 

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be placed on the rungs of a chair with the 
legs close to the body. Often the taking of 
this posture will assist an obstinate stool that 
otherwise would not have been evacuated 
and it will always make the evacuation 
easier and more complete. 

Before the muscular effort is made a deep 
breath should be taken and retained, as this, 
forcing the diaphragm downward, com- 
presses the bowels. 

Massage is of great assistance; if the left 
side of the abdomen is rubbed downward 
while in the crouching position in the closet 
before the effort is made an excellent result 
will be obtained. When an evacuation seems 
very slow or unpromising the abdomen 
should be massaged from the right side un- 
der the ribs across to the left and downward 
on the left side. 

Do not make a violent muscular effort; 
hemorrhoids will result from straining. 



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Do not be in a hurry ; remember that this 
is one of the most important acts of the 
day and that the hours that are to follow 
will be affected for good or ill by it. Take 
time; in the beginning, ten or even twenty 
minutes could not be better spent than in 
making an attempt, a small price to pay 
for the cleanliness that will result and the 
added health and energy. Later it will be 
easier; an excellent habit will soon be 
formed. 

Be patient; almost every constipated per- 
son has lost the sense of having a "call" and, 
whenever it is time to have a movement, 
make a conscientious effort, no matter how 
unpromising it may seem. Concentrate your 
mind on it and persist. Do not stop after 
the first passage; continue your effort until 
you feel the lower bowel is entirely emptied. 

The mental attitude is of very great im- 
portance. We know how possible it is for 



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a person to make up his mind to wake at 
a certain hour to catch a train and succeed 
in doing it. This power may be used to good 
purpose. Many cases of constipation have 
been effectually helped without other means 
than regular efforts, determination and con- 
centration. Fear, anger, grief, worry or 
haste will retard or entirely check the action 
of the bowels in the same degree that they 
interfere with digestion. A calm, poised 
condition of the mind must be cultivated. 

A few minutes may be very profitably 
spent every day on rising and on retiring 
in some form of abdominal exercise. A very 
good exercise is to lie on the back with the 
feet under some heavy object like the foot 
or side of the bed and then raising the body 
from the hips to a sitting position, always 
keeping the spine and legs straight; another 
good exercise is twisting the body sideways 
from the hips while standing, or even better 



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when lying on the back with the legs kept 
perfectly immovable; this exercise may be 
taken in bed before rising, bed-clothes or 
something heavy being placed over the feet 
to help keep them in position while the body 
is twisted from side to side. Walking is al- 
ways beneficial. 

The stool will become soft and easy as 
the feces are composed of about 75 per cent 
of liquid which, when evacuation takes place 
at the proper time, is not absorbed back into 
the system. The excrement will be pale yel- 
low in color, a sign of healthy bowels; the 
dark and blackish foul-smelling stool, hard 
and formed, is an unmistakable evidence of 
delayed evacuation with its accompanying 
absorption. (Except when certain foods 
have colored the fecal matter, as grape juice, 
for instance, which will color the normal 
stool dark.) 

With care that the water closet is com- 



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fortable and warm, that after each meal the 
mind as well as the body should remain calm, 
undisturbed and quiescent, that proper po- 
sition be taken and patient effort made, 
there is no uncertainty about the result: 
there will be three or four movements a day. 
A new life will begin for the sufferer, 
vigor, youth, ambition and happiness will be 
his. It is remarkable the new endurance 
and the ease which the body, cleansed and 
purified, will show. As most people have 
suffered since childhood it is actually a new 
life that dawns. 



CHAPTER DC 

Food and Nutrition" 

|/iOOD is composed of four elements: 
-*■ 1. Proteids. 

2. Fats. 

3. Starches or Carbohydrates. 

4. Mineral salts. 

Proteid is the muscle and tissue builder. 
It also serves as a source of nutrition for 
nerve and brain. Fats are the fuel to main- 
tain heat and muscular energy. Carbohy- 
drates serve also as a fuel. Mineral salts 
furnish lime for bone building, phosphorus 
for the brain and iron for the blood. At 
first glance it would seem as though the 
body would need a high percentage of Pro- 
tein — but all scientific investigation has 

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shown that a small amount of protein will 
go a long ways and that there is too great 
a percentage of protein in the diet of the 
average person and as protein produces 
clogging, toxic products, it is especially 
harmful when taken in excess of the actual 
needs of the body. 

In the selection of food as set forth in 
this book the necessary proportion of food 
elements exists in a well-balanced form. 
Animal food contains a high percentage of 
Protein and Fat and is completely deficient 
in Carbohydrates. Whereas in fruit and 
vegetables the necessary proportions of all 
three elements are more nicely balanced. A 
person occupied in arduous physical work 
can always assure himself of sufficient mus- 
cle-building material on a non-meat diet 
by adding a few nuts to each meal as nuts 
contain a proportion of protein equal to, 
and in the case of the walnut, almond and 



56 THROW PHYSIC TO THE DOGS 

peanut, exceeding, the proportion in the 
same amount of meat, with the added merit 
of containing carbohydrates. 

The choice of food which will cure con- 
stipation is a perfect diet, containing all the 
essentials in a complete balance. The 
strength and endurance resulting from it 
will be apparent almost immediately. The 
Japanese with their great mental intensity 
and physical vigour are a splendid example 
of a people who live wholly on fruit, grains 
and vegetables, as indeed are most Oriental 
people as well as the peasants of Europe. 
We are told that the Algerians, a vegetarian 
people, have furnished the fiercest fighters 
to-day in France. 



THE LAST WORD 

Get Plenty of Bulk. 

Eat all the vegetables, fruit and cereals 
that you enjoy and eat a great deal. 

Eat a cereal every morning with bran and 
cream. 

Eat plenty of uncooked green vegetables; 
salads, tomatoes, cold slaw, celery, etc. 

Avoid all food made of fine cereals : white 
bread, macaroni, pearl barley, fine breakfast 
foods, tapioca, rice, cornstarch, puddings 
and pastry. 

Eat Fruit and Drink the Juices of 
Fruit Between Meals. 

Avoid all concentrated, constipating 
foods: meat, milk, chocolate, cocoa, candy, 
cheese and all indigestible foods and com- 
binations, like fried dishes, rich gravies, etc. 

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Go to the Closet Regularly After Each 
Meal and Have a Movement. 

Try again a little later if you feel the 
slightest inclination. 

Keep warm after meals. 

Sit "on your heels" for a few minutes be- 
fore going to the closet. 

Take the natural position at stool. 

Assist the evacuation by massage down 
the left side of the abdomen, when neces- 
sary. 

Eat Fruit and Drink the Juices of 
Fruit Between Meals. Get Plenty of Bulk! 



Some Suggestions for Menues follow. 



BREAKFAST MENUS 

Cereal, bran and cream 

Broiled tomatoes, cream sauce 

Corn bread and butter 

A portion of bran consists of about two table- 
spoonsful. The difference in flavour between the 
cooked and uncooked brans which are upon the 
market is perhaps slightly in favour of the cooked 
variety. 

Broiled Tomatoes. — Slice good sized toma- 
toes, dust with flour and salt, saute in butter un- 
til thoroughly done on both sides. To fat in pan 
add cream, stir till sauce thickens slightly, then 
pour over tomatoes and serve. 

Cereal, bran and cream 

Poached egg, whole-wheat toast 

Huckleberry sauce 

Bananas and cream. Cereal, bran and cream 

Rye or graham muffins, butter, honey 

Cereal coffee 

Cereal, Coffee. — Of the instantly soluble ce- 
real coffee have ready in a cup one level tea- 

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spoonful. Bring to a boil four tablespoonsful of 
water, add equal quantity or more of milk and 
heat to boiling 1 point. Pour over "coffee," stir 
well, add sugar. Do not consider this drink as 
coffee — think of it as a beverage, healthful and 
beneficial, with its own distinctive flavour. 

Berries, melon or cooked fruit 

Cereal, bran and cream 
Graham gems, butter and honey 

Bran, cooked or dry, with cream 

Baked banana 

Baked potato, with nuts 

Raisin bran bread 

Baked Banana. — Peel and slice fruit in half, 
lengthwise. Place in shallow buttered baking 
dish, dot with butter, and pour over about a 
fourth of a cup of warm water. Bake in moderate 
oven about ten to fifteen minutes. Do not allow 
to bake dry; should be jelly-like. No sugar will 
be required. 

Baked Potato, with nuts. — Bake potato till 
done. Remove from oven and gash twice with a 
knife; squeeze potato slightly and into opening 
thus made put a lump of butter and half a tea- 
spoonful of finely chopped nut meats, walnuts or 
pecans are best. 



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Cereal, bran and cream 

Beaten omelette 
Bran muffins and butter 

Beaten Omelette.- — Separate yolks and 
whites of eggs. Beat whites stiff; whip yolks till 
well mixed, add salt, dessertspoonful cream and 
one of hot water. Fold in whites and pour into 
buttered pan. When puffed fold and dry slightly 
in oven. Chopped nut meats may be added, or 
asparagus tips and white sauce. 

Soaked black figs 

Cream of wheat, bran and cream 

Egg chocolate 

Corn meal muffins 

Soaked Figs. — Wash the dried figs thoroughly, 
place in cup or tall glass and cover with lukewarm 
water. Let stand six hours or longer. These are 
delicious with cream. No sugar is required. 

Egg Chocolate. — Beat an egg thoroughly. 
To about four tablespoonsful cold water add 
heaping teaspoonful of unsweetened chocolate. 
When cooked and completely dissolved, add milk, 
about two-thirds of a cup, some sugar, a tiny 
pinch of salt, a dash of cream. When thorough- 
ly heated pour slowly over the beaten egg. Serve 
in glass. 



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Baked apple or apple sauce 

Cereal, bran and cream 

Brown bread, butter 

Cereal coffee 

Corn flakes, bran and cream 

Baked creamed fish 

Graham rolls, cooked fruit 

Cereal coffee 

Berries, cooked fruit or melon 

Cereal, bran and cream 

Spinach and egg 

Spinach and Egg. — Place a layer of finely- 
chopped and well seasoned cooked spinach on a 
buttered, shallow baking dish. With a spoon make 
as many depressions as needed and into each de- 
pression gently drop an egg. Place in oven till 
eggs are set and serve at once. 

Stewed figs 

Cereal, bran and cream 

Baked potato, asparagus tips 

Oatmeal or graham muffins 



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Grapes 

Eggs with tomatoes 

Bran gems and butter 

Melon 

Egg chocolate 

Whole-wheat gems 

Baked banana 

Very ripe peaches 

Uncooked cereal, bran, light cream 

Corn bread, milk 

Cereal, bran and cream 

Apple sauce, muffins (whole wheat) 

Jellied egg 

Jellied Egg. — Pour boiling water over egg 
and let stand, covered, four to eight minutes. 

Soaked prunes 

Cereal, bran and cream 

Muffins with honey 

Cereal coffee 

Soaked Prunes. — Wash the prunes and soak 
twenty-four hours in water to cover. 



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Grapes, melon or peaches 

Baked sweet potato 

Cottage cheese with cream, figs 

Stewed or fresh plums 

Baked tomato, baked potato with nuts 

Corn bread 

Baked Tomatoes. — Cut top from tomatoes 
and scoop out pulp. Season pulp with salt, su- 
gar, onion juice and olive oil. Replace into the 
tomato shells, put back lids and bake, covered, 
for twenty-five minutes, basting from time to 
time with oil. 

Ripe berries and cream 
Bran muffins 
Baked potato 
Baked banana 

Mashed prunes, whipped cream 

Cooked barley, sugar and butter 

Muffins 

Milk 



DINNER MENUS 

Dried lima beans. Spinach 

Buttered beets 

Lettuce hearts, French dressing 

Bread pudding with apples 

Lima Beans. — Soak the beans, after washing, 
several hours. Cook until soft in water in which 
a small onion has been boiled. Before serving add 
a lump of butter and a tablespoonful of cream. 

Bread Pudding. — Cover bottom of a shallow 
baking dish with apple sauce that has been slight- 
ly flavoured with lemon and cinnamon. Cut stale 
whole-wheat bread into squares after buttering 
generously and arrange closely over apple. 
Sprinkle with sugar; bake in a moderate oven. 
Serve with hard sauce or prune juice. 

Melon 
Mushroom pie Carrots and peas en 
casserole 
Stewed tomatoes 
Celery- 
Baked banana and cream 

Mushroom Pie. — Cut fresh mushrooms in small 
pieces; sprinkle lightly with salt. Cut two thin 

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slices of bacon into small pieces and put in bot- 
tom of shallow baking dish; on these put a layer 
of the mushrooms and over these a layer of finely 
mashed and seasoned potatoes. Put bits of but- 
ter over and bake one-half hour in a moderate 
oven. When nearly done remove cover and brown. 
Carrots and Peas en Casserole. — Place peas 
and diced carrots, together with a tablespoonful 
of butter, a scant teaspoonful of sugar, some salt 
and a cup of warm water into a casserole dish, 
cover and bake forty minutes. Add cream or 
cream sauce before serving. 



Vegetable soup (I) 

Parsnips Baked potatoes with nuts 

Boiled onions 

Cress and beet salad 

Pears Imperial 

Vegetable Soup (I). — Take one onion, a tur- 
nip, two pared potatoes, a carrot, some celery; 
chop or cut up fine. Mix vegetables, except pota- 
toes, and cook ten minutes in three tablespoonfuls 
butter, stirring constantly. Add potatoes, cover 
and cook two minutes. Add one quart water. 
Salt. Washed and soaked barley may be added, 
or some oatmeal. Toast some rye bread, butter 



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each slice, and, if desired, rub the under side of 
each slice slightly with garlic. Put bread into 
tureen or soup plates and pour soup over. To- 
matoes or okra may be added. If this soup is 
cooked in the fireless cooker slightly less water 
should be used as there is no evaporation. 

The fireless cooker and casserole method of 
cookery is recommended to be used in these reci- 
pes whenever possible. 

Pears Imperial. — Bake sunshine cake in muffin 
tins ; when cool scoop out centres ; simmer Bartlett 
pears in spiced syrup till tender, fill centres at 
blossom end with dates, figs and hickory nuts. 
Set the pears in the cakes. To their syrup add a 
dash of maraschino and pour over the cakes. 
Serve very cold. 

Vegetable soup (II) 

Beans a la Maitre d'Hotel 

Sweet potatoes, glazed 

Tomato salad 

Cherry pie 

Vegetable Soup (II). — All water in which po- 
tatoes, onions, spinach, asparagus, etc., has been 
cooked should be saved. It should be thickened, 
butter and cream added and served with croutons 
of rye bread. 



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Beans a la Maitre d'Hotel. — Prepare and 
boil string beans. Drain thoroughly. Keep 
them hot and when dry put them in a stewpan 
with two ounces of melted butter or olive oil, half 
a teaspoonful of scalded and chopped parsley, a 
little salt and a teaspoonful of lemon juice. Shake 
over fire, mix well and serve hot. 

Cream of asparagus soup 

Cauliflower en casserole 

Turnips or parsnips 

Bran bread Celery 

Mock mince pie 

Cauliflower en Casserole. — Boil cauliflower 
till tender, put in casserole, pour over drawn but- 
ter sauce, and crumbs. Do not cover, brown and 
serve. 

Mock Mince Pie. — Four common crackers, 
rolled; 1% cups sugar; 1 cup molasses; y% cup 
lemon juice; ^ cup chopped apple, same of rai- 
sins, chopped and seeded, and same of currants; 
% cup butter; 2 well beaten eggs; spices. Mix 
in order given. Bake between crusts made of 
whole-wheat flour. Above quantity will make two 
pies. 



THROW PHYSIC TO THE DOGS 09 

Peas, in cream Carrots Potato 

Salad, Russian dressing, toasted nuts 

Whole-wheat gems 

Baked banana, whipped cream 

Russian Dressing. — To mayonnaise which has 
been thinned with cream add equal quantity of 
good chile sauce; add teaspoonful (level) of gran- 
ulated sugar, stir, chill and serve. 

Toasted Nuts. — Have English walnuts, pref- 
erably in halves, place in small shallow pan, dot 
sparingly with butter, add pinch of salt and place 
in oven till crisp. 

Vegetable soup 
Onions en Casserole Stuffed tomatoes 

Baked potato 
Fruit salad, whipped cream mayonnaise 

Corn on the cob Broiled tomatoes 

Baked potato on half shell 

Whole-wheat bread, celery 

Raisin buffet 

Raisin Buffet. — Allow one cup seeded raisins 
to simmer in ^2 CU P water until thoroughly soft. 



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Add one dozen well broken macaroons, % tea- 
spoonful vanilla extract, % cup chopped nuts. 
Stir well and set aside to cool. Serve in small 
punch glasses with whipped cream on top. 

Lima beans Potato Carrot 

Salad, Celery and Apples 

Prune whip 

Prune Whip. — Pick over and wash 1/3 of a 
pound of prunes ; soak several hours in cold water 
to cover and cook in same water until soft; re- 
move stones and rub through a strainer. Beat 
whites of three eggs until stiff, add prune mix- 
ture gradually when cold, and % tablespoonful 
lemon juice. Pile lightly on buttered baking dish, 
bake twenty minutes in slow oven. Serve cold 
with cream. y 2 cup of sugar should be cooked 
with the prunes if desired sweet. 

Potato and onion soup 

Asparagus Swiss chard Mashed potato 

Salad, French dressing 

Figs with walnuts 

Potato and Onion Soup. — Cook two medium 
sized potatoes and a medium sized onion till done. 
Then mash thoroughly with a fork or masher. 



THROW PHYSIC TO THE DOGS 71 

Salt and add cup or more rich milk, lump of but- 
ter and celery salt. 

Cream of tomato soup 

Beet greens with young beets Mashed 

turnip 

Baked potato Corn bread 

Huckleberry pie 

Beet Greens. — Select young beets when they 
are not larger than walnuts. Wash thoroughly. 
Cook till tender in boiling salted water. Plunge 
beets (not tops) into cold water and rub off skins. 
Drain greens and chop slightly. Add butter, 
lemon juice and salt. Arrange on hot platter 
with the cut beets as border. Mayonnaise may 
be served with this. 

Creamed mushrooms 

Baked cabbage String beans 

Sweet potato 

Pear salad 



Baked Cabbage. — Boil cabbage till tender in 
salted water containing a pinch of soda. Reheat 
in a thin cream sauce. Put into a buttered bak- 
ing dish, cover with crumbs, dot with butter and 
bake 15 to 20 minutes. 



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Baked beans 

Artichokes Onions 

Brown bread 

Baked apple 

Brown Bread. — Beat together thoroughly 2 
cups New Orleans molasses, 2 cups sweet milk, 1 
cup sour milk. Add to this 1 heaping cup each 
corn meal, rye and graham flour, 1 teaspoonful 
salt and a dessertspoonful of soda, thoroughly 
mixed together and sifted. Pour into a buttered 
mould or pail with tight fitting lid (the recep- 
tacle should be three-fourths full). Place in a ket- 
tle of cold water and boil four hours. See that 
the water does not boil to top of mould ; or that it 
doesn't stop boiling or boil away. To serve re- 
move lid of mould and set it a few minutes in the 
oven to dry the top. It will turn out in a perfect 
shape. 

Bean soup 

Baked eggplant Salsify 

Bran muffins 

Cold slaw a la May Irwin 

Dates stuffed with peanuts 

Baked Eggplant. — Split the eggplant cross- 
wise, scoop out the inside leaving shell hard and 



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firm. Chop the pulp, add % cup cream, salt, some 
melted butter and enough bread crumbs to 
thicken. Fill shells, tie together and bake one 
hour or more. 

Cold Slaw. — Shred a cabbage very fine. Mix 
1/2 teaspoonful salt, a tablespoonful of butter, 
melted, a tablespoonful of sugar, three-fourths 
cup of cream, and one egg slightly beaten. Heat 
3 tablespoonsful of cider vinegar, add egg mix- 
ture slowly, stirring constantly. Pour hot over 
the cabbage. Serve cold with a sprinkling of 
celery seed. 

Creamed beets Cooked celery 

Squash or sweet potato 

Corn bread Tomato salad 

Raisin pie 

Creamed Beets. — After removing skins of 
cooked beets, place in a saucepan with a cupful 
of warm water. Then add the cream sauce made 
of butter, a tablespoon of flour and half a cupful 
of cream. 



A WORD ABOUT LUNCHEONS 

AS has been suggested elsewhere in these 
pages, the person who wishes to cure 
himself quickly and easily of constipation 
can have no better luncheon than fruit alone. 
In fact, during the first weeks of "the 
new life" it would be best to adhere rigidly 
to the luncheon of fruit exclusively. A lit- 
tle later, nuts, salted or plain, may be added. 
Almonds are highest in nutriment. A wine- 
glassful of fruit juice might be taken, but 
no starchy food of any kind. The individ- 
ual taste will make its own combinations 
among the fruits. Grapes, alone, form a 
complete and satisfying meal. Do not for- 
get, however, to take more fruit or fruit 
juice before the evening meal. If enough 
fruit is taken, and an ounce or so of nuts 

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eaten, one need not fear that they have had 
an insufficient meal. 

Figs and peanuts are a delicious com- 
bination. 

Dates and almonds. 

Raisins and mixed nuts. 

Later luncheons of various salads will 
make an occasional agreeable change from 
the strictly fruit lunch. 

Fruit salad with mayonnaise. 

*Celery and apple salad. ^Peanut-butter 
dressing. 

With the salads, whole-wheat bread sand- 
wiches may be eaten. 

Brown bread sandwiches with banana fill- 
ing. 

*Take equal quantities of apple and celery; 
sprinkle with lemon juice and let stand till cold. 
Mix peanut-butter in proportion of one-third 
with mayonnaise. Arrange on crisp lettuce, add 
dressing and sprinkle with chopped ripe olives. 



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Whole-wheat bread with date and peanut- 
butter filling. 

Graham bread, chopped nuts, figs, dates 
and raisins as filling and with a pinch of 
salt added. 

Rye bread, tomato, lettuce and mayon- 
naise. (The mayonnaise should always be 
made with lemon juice, never with vinegar.) 

Apple and cress salad, French dressing. 

Endive salad, with beets. 

Water cress and beets, mayonnaise. 

Potato salad. 

Chopped tomato and pineapple, mayon- 
naise or French dressing. 

Asparagus and cucumbers, mayonnaise. 

Salad of a melange of fruits. 

Salad of a melange of vegetables. 



TABLE OF CELLULOSE VALUES IN THE 

EDIBLE PARTS OF FOOD 

Per Cent of 
Fruits Cellulose 

Huckleberries 12.2 

Raspberries 7.4 

Figs, dried 7.3 

Prunes, dried 7.3 

Cranberries 6.2 

Dates 5.5 

Blackberries 5.2 

Currants 4.6 

Plums 4.3 

Cherries 3.8 

Peaches 3.4 

Pears 3.1 

Apricots 3.1 

Gooseberries 2.7 

Apples 2.7 

Grapes 2.5 

Strawberries 2.2 

Raisins 1.7 

Oranges 1.5 

Lemons 1.5 

Pineapples 1.5 

Watermelons 1.0 

Mulberries 0.9 

Bananas 0.2 

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Per Cent of 
Vegetables Cellulose 

Navy beans, dry 4.4 

Parsnips 2.5 

Baked beans, canned 2.1 

Asparagus 2.1 

Green peas i 1.7 

Lima beans 1.7 

Turnips 1.3 

Sweet potatoes 1.3 

Tomatoes 1.1 

Rhubarb 1.1 

Cabbage 1.1 

Carrots 1.1 

Cauliflower 1.0 

Baked potato 1.0 

Spinach 0.9 

Beets 0.9 

Celery 0.9 

Artichokes 0.8 

Onions 0.8 

Squash 0.8 

Mushrooms 0.8 

Egg plant 0.8 

String beans 0.8 

Lettuce 0.5 

Green corn 0.5 

Cucumbers 0.5 

Potatoes, white 0.4 

Brussels sprouts 0.37 

Water cress 0.1 



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Per Cent of 
Nuts Cellulose 

English walnuts 2.6 

Peanuts 2.5 

Almonds 2.0 

Chestnuts 1.8 

Black walnuts 1.7 

Per Cent of 
Cereals Cellulose 

Bran 40. 

Oatmeal 10. 

Barley 4. 

Rye-meal 3. 

Corn-meal 2. 

Cracked wheat 1.7 

Whole-wheat bread 1.2 

Graham bread 1.2 

Pearl barley 0.3 

White bread 0.3 

Polished rice 0.2 



BOOKS CONSULTED 

Constipation, Obstipation and Intestinal Stasis 

Gant 

Saunders, Phil., 1916 
Nutrition and Dietetics 

Hall 

Appleton, 1916 
Diet 

Issued by Battle Creek Sanitarium 
The Prolongation of Life 

Metchnikoff 

Putnam, 1908 
Bran 

Gallant 

Reprinted from the N. Y. Medical Review 
Corrective Eating 

Eugene Christian, N. Y. 
Colon Hygiene 

Kellogg 

Battle Creek 
Chronic Intestinal Stasis 

Lane 

British Medical Journal, 1913 



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